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Bill	Agricultural land conservation: California Farmland Conservancy Program Act.	Existing law establishes the California Farmland Conservancy Program Act, to be administered generally by the Department of Conservation, and provides that it is the intent of the act to, among other things, encourage voluntary, long-term private stewardship of agricultural lands by offering landowners financial incentives, encourage local land use planning for orderly and efficient urban growth and conservation of agricultural land, and encourage improvements to enhance long-term sustainable agricultural uses. The act creates the California Farmland Conservancy Program Fund and requires moneys in the fund from gifts, donations, and federal grants, which are continuously appropriated to the department, and other moneys in the fund, upon appropriation, to be used for the purposes of the California Farmland Conservancy Program, which include, among other things, the purchase of agricultural conservation easements, fee title acquisition grants, and land improvement and planning grants. The act requires an agricultural conservation easement to be granted to any organization or entity authorized to acquire and hold conservation easements, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2964	California AB 2964 (20212022)	bill appropriation	Agricultural land conservation: California Farmland Conservancy Program Act.	enacted	Committee on Agriculture	6	27	9	2022-03-14	2022-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/9383603e-e12c-401d-a01b-ec49a97c4cc1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2964	87c88c9d85f4ea3ec5d9fc65d137a4ddca11ea09b2a760c3ff6dec49c2d61a82	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2964 (20212022) — Agricultural land conservation: California Farmland Conservancy Program Act.

Existing law establishes the California Farmland Conservancy Program Act, to be administered generally by the Department of Conservation, and provides that it is the intent of the act to, among other things, encourage voluntary, long-term private stewardship of agricultural lands by offering landowners financial incentives, encourage local land use planning for orderly and efficient urban growth and conservation of agricultural land, and encourage improvements to enhance long-term sustainable agricultural uses. The act creates the California Farmland Conservancy Program Fund and requires moneys in the fund from gifts, donations, and federal grants, which are continuously appropriated to the department, and other moneys in the fund, upon appropriation, to be used for the purposes of the California Farmland Conservancy Program, which include, among other things, the purchase of agricultural conservation easements, fee title acquisition grants, and land improvement and planning grants. The act requires an agricultural conservation easement to be granted to any organization or entity authorized to acquire and hold conservation easements, as specified.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 03/14/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/29/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/22/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/23/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2964 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2964 Agriculture Concurrence in Senate Amendments By RIVAS, R. — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2964 AGRI. Assembly Third Reading By RIVAS, R. — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB2964 AGRI. — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2022-03-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-03-15 From printer. May be heard in committee April 14.
• 2022-03-24 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5366.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 502, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9383603e-e12c-401d-a01b-ec49a97c4cc1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).